In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. Anita Feldman, the deputy director for curatorial affairs at The San ...

A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, ...

The museum is the home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal key aspects of America’s rich artistic and cultural history from the ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum's growing Latinx art collection represents the rich contributions of Latinos to our country from the colonial period to the present with artworks that range from ...

“There was another era when people said, ‘Latinx art, you know, doesn’t exist. It’s not a thing. It doesn’t belong. It’s not part of American art,’” said Pilar Tompkins-Rivas, the chief curator and ...

That movement represents an art historical milestone ... Pollock and his ilk as the sole originators of the first all-American art movement. “Innervisions” shows Black artists exhibiting ...